today, from boehner, a hint at a willingness to compromise. >> we want you to succeed. let's challenge ourselves to find the common ground that has eluded us. let's rise above the dysfunction and do the right thing together for our country. >> reporter: the newly elected congress looks almost exactly like the last one. the same partisan divisions, maybe even a little bit deeper, that led to failure last time. but diane, there also may be a new dynamic, that looming crisis, forcing a compromise that just seemed impossible the last time around. >> well, i'll have a chance to ask the speaker of the house, john boehner, about just that tomorrow. an abc news exclusive. we will sit down and talk about the message of this election and what is to come in the road ahead. thank you, jon. >>> and abc news has learned tonight that former congresswoman gabby giffords and her husband mark kelly plan to be in the room for the sentencing of the man who shot her in january of last year. the sentencing is tomorrow. her husband, mark kelly, expected to make a statement in court, with his